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June 22 1926.

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menu June 22, 1926.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

mowtns xounennoon,

or ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

BAND.

Application fled November 27, 1925. Serial No. 71,875.

I to provide a device of this. character which can be applied readily. to a shirt and will serve to hold it in proper sh Heretofore 'it has been the practice to use a paper band'one end of which is dippe in gum.- This has required the use of specia machinery for applying "the gum to the w bands, the resultant product being objecbeen impossible to tionable because it has get the full adhesive value of the gum when applied in this way.

It is an object of the present invention to provide with the band a gpmmed tab a portion of which is fixed to t e band while the remaining portion is exposed where it 2 can be readily moistened and applied to the band when it is desired to place the band in position around a shirt or other garment.

A further object is to provide a band which can be made as cheapl as the ordinary shirt bands and which, ecause of the separatetreatment of the tab with an adhesive is more efiicient than where hesive is applied directly to the ordinary aper used in the manufacture of bands. 80 With the foregoing and other objects in view which will ap ar as the description roceeds, the invention resides in the comination'and arrangement of parts and in the details'of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit 'of the invention. l In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings, Fi ure 1 is a face view of the band, a

portion being broken away.

shirt or other the ad-' Figure 2 is an edge view thereof. Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates the main strip of the band, this and bein of any desired proportions. Extending eyond, one end of this strip is a tab 2 which can be formed of paper or other desired material and which extends throughd out the width of the strip 1. This tab 2 has a coating 3 of a suitable adhesive extending over one face thereof and one end portion of the tab is held to the strip 1 by applying the adhesive to the strip as shown at 4. Tab 2 is preferably of a better grade of material than that constituting the band 1 and is specially prepared before being assembled with the strip 1. Thus it is possible to obtain betteradhesive quality than where the adhesive material is applied directly to a strip 1 of an inferior grade of material, this having been the practice heretofore followed in the reparation of bands of this general type. heband is used in the ordinary way, it being placed about a arement to be held in shape after the laun ering and the gummed surface of the projecting portion of the tab 2 is aflixed to the opposite portion of the strip 1. I

What is claimed is:

A band for holding laundered shirts and the like includin an elongated imperforate strip, and a tab aving an adhesive extending throughout the width and length of one surface thereof, one end portion of the tab lapping and affixed to one end ortion of the strip, the lapping portions 0 the strip and tab constituting a reinforcement for the band, said tab being of a tougher material than the strip.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing 5 my own, I have hereto affixed my signature. KNOWLES YOUNGBLOOD.

being formed preferably of paper I 

